Method of making sausage casings



Nov. 6, 1928.

F. FREY METHOD OF- MAKING SAUSAGE CASINGS Filed Jan. 22, 1927 A TTORNE Y.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK FREY, F CINCINNATI, OHIO.

METHOD OF IMIAKINC-i SAUSAGE CASINGS.

Application filed January 22, 1927. Serial No. 162,902.

My invention relates to processes of makportions of material illustrating my invening sausagecasings or casingl for meat prodtion; acts such as liver wurstpr t e like. Figure 1 is a perspective view of an unslit It is the object of my invention to provide hog bung extension. a I

a process for making casings from material Figure 2 is a perspective view of a slit bung 5 which has heretofore been practically unextension. e available foruse in large sausage casings. It Figure 3 is a perspective view of several is further my object to provlde a process extensions laid one-on another. which will result in a stronger casing than Figure 4 is a perspective viewof-a casing has been heretofore made from'the material stitched together in accordance with my from which casings have been made. i A furprocess. ther object is the provision of casings which Figure 5 is a perspective view ofga filled will have sulficient strength to permit the sausage casing. f meat material packed therein to be cooked The hog bung extension indicated at 1 in subsequently to the'filling of the casing. Figure 1 is ordinarily thoroughly cleansed 65 As is well known in the art, it. is customary and pickled at the packing house and after to prepare casings for sausage and other meat again washing and partially drying the exproducts from the entrails of animals, such tensions, the casing manufacturer slits theas cattle, sheep and hogs. 'For certain classes extension along a straight line such as is indiof sausage meat a, very tough casing is recated at 22. Several layers of slittedexten- 'm quired, as the sausage may be of several feet sions which ordinarily will he at least several in length, and the meat mixture may have to feet in length are then laid one on another. he coo ed after the filling of the caslng. For Figure 2 is a (perspective view of one slitted large sausages ithas been customarytoutilize extensidn, an it should be noted that the what are called in the packers art? the hog thickness of the piece shown is much exag- 7 bungs for largesausage casings. It has furgerated in order to make illustration pos- 'ther been common practice for a number of sible.- Figure 3 illustrates two slitted pieces years to slit the hog bungs and stitch them laid one on the other as is required to form 2. together to form casingsv which have double casing wall of sufficient strength to permit 3c the size of unslit casings. the manufacture of serviceable casings. Fig- '0 Eeretoiore, when tough casings have been urei l shows our ply of pieces stitched torequired, the hog bungl extensions corhposgether with stitching such as is indicated at ing the greater part of t e hogs entrails have 33, and with a strip of cloth tape 4, ap lied been unavailable because this-material is thin to the casing rior to the insertion c the 5 and readily tears under the strain either of stitches,- and' a so preferably from the side,

the weight of material enclosed or the Strain of the casin through which the sewing due to cooking the meat products after the needle is first inserted. A chain or lock stitch filling. t such as is indicated at the right border of the It IS the object of my invention to provide piece shown in Figure =4 is preferable. 'After a process which will render these hog bung the casing has been stitched together it is extensions available for 'use in any type of turned inside out as indicated in Fi re 5, casingv required, regardless of the weight or and the casing may then be filledwit meat len. of the sausages to be fill therein; I products asi-ndicated at 5. I

further provide an m rove process of While I have shown a strip of cloth tape, 4 5 strengthening the joint 0 two or-more pieces a strip oftou h animal mattenmay be used of easing materialwhich may be secured to: and the threads reinforced thereby. It will gather to provide a casing of enlarged dlfiIIlalso be within the scope'of myprocess to use I 'eter. f a a larger portion of thin cloth and I may vReferring to the drawings in which I have apply the reinforcing cloth between the cas-l 50 illustrated more or less diagrammatically ing layers. Theentire-casing may be lined with a thin cheesecloth andstitching ma be applied down mor'e'than one line of einforcement. It will further be entirely practical to stitch together short ieces at their ends tomake long pieces, alt ough such a step does not offer much commerclal'advantage, as the pieces of the extensions are usually more than long enough for the purposes re uired.

of layers of extension material one on an-' he process consists in laying'a plurality other, and thus stitching together with tape or cloth-reinforcement for the stitches, a'

casing. which shall be made up of walls which will be strong enough to retain, the weight required. My invention is of considerable commercial importance, because it enables me to utilize for tough casing material such as is adapted for use for retaining liver Wurst and other sausages Y of large. diameter, material which has heretofore which consists "in taking a double ply layer of hog bung extensionmaterial for each of thewall's of a casing, and stitching the-don ble ply layers together adjacent their edges,

and reinforcing the stitches with a strip/extending in. alignment withv the line of stitches.

2. Theprocess of making sausage casings which consists in taking adouble ply layer of hog bung extension material for'each of the walls of a casing, and stitching the layers together at their edges, and reinforcing the outer walls at the time of stitching with cloth material. q

3. The process of making sausage casings which consists in slitting hog bung extensions, and stitching the slit sections together with a strip of tape. reinforcing the line of stitches.

4. That process of making sausage cas ings which consists in slitting hog bung ex-' tensions, stitching at least four ply of said extensions together at their edges with cloth reinforcing the lines of stitches.

'- FREDERICK FREY. 

